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Senate Bill S8856

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Makes the provisions of Kendra's law permanent

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2021-S8856 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene
Laws Affected:
Amd §18, Chap 408 of 1999
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: S3147
2025-2026: S145

2021-S8856 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions thereof permanent.

2021-S8856 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8856 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8856
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 25, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions ther-
   eof permanent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 18 of chapter 408 of the laws of 1999, constituting
 Kendra's law, as amended by section 1 of subpart H of part UU of chapter
 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   §  18.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided that section
 fifteen of this act shall take effect April 1, 2000, provided,  further,
 that  subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of the mental hygiene law as added
 by section six of this act shall be effective 90  days  after  this  act
 shall become law[; and that this act shall expire and be deemed repealed
 June 30, 2027].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15409-01-2

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